Work · Novel · 2012

Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn, author

Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Units: 3 parts (Boy Loses Girl / Boy Meets Girl / Boy Gets Girl Back (Or Vice Versa)), alternating Nick present-day chapters and Amy diary chapters
isbn13: 9780307588364

A marriage told twice: Nick Dunne's present-tense account of his wife Amy's disappearance, alternated with Amy's diary entries, across three parts that invert the traditional boy-meets-girl romance structure.

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Novel 2012 → Film 2014 · Direct adaptationGone GirlGillian Flynn adapts her own dueling-narrator marriage thriller into a single continuous film, keeping the mechanism and the ending while trading two unreliable first-person voices for behavior on screen.71composite · editorial

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Same title, mixed machine

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This work is not catalogued as an adaptation of anything.